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Shares of South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix rose 14 per cent as they made their debut on Wall Street as demand for chips is surging.

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement agreement with South Bow Corp. regarding a 2022 rupture of the Keystone pipeline.

When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions.

China on Friday said it is temporarily blocking the export of helium, a key element for chipmaking, as the Iran war’s escalation adds to global supply disruptions.

The first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform in the sea, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March filed a lawsuit Friday against the vessel’s operator over labour rights violations and unfair dismissal.

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East.

The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial on Thursday to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in a US$67 million fraud scheme.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, economist Raj Chetty and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King are among a slate of names released.

Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days are “unacceptable,” Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Thursday.

As the ongoing war in the Middle East continues to devastate energy supply chains in Asia, Japan’s top diplomat to Canada says his country sees enormous potential in Canadian oil as Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks to turn his energy superpower ambitions into reality.

Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar sounded missile alert sirens early Thursday morning warning of an Iranian attack after the United States launched a new round of airstrikes targeting Iran.

A powerful heat dome developing over the western United States is expected to spread into parts of Western Canada, bringing several days of unusually hot weather. Forecasters say the pattern could worsen wildfire conditions in already dry regions while leaving parts of Eastern Canada cooler than normal.

The U.S. military launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets early Wednesday after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman. In a statement posted to social media, U.S. Central Command said American forces launched the strikes “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”

The U.S. military launched new strikes against Iran early Wednesday, hours after three merchant ships were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest exchange of fire to threaten the interim deal to end the fighting between the two countries.